When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a gorgeous betrayal of Shelley’s novel—a film that mistakes sympathy for depth and strips the monster of his moral agency.
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley poured all her anxieties about life and death into the story Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. With this work, considered the first modern science fiction novel, she established herself as one of the most important authors of Gothic literature.
The “poor things” in the title of the Greek director’s film are the women subjected to an eternal, ever-changing, and renewable system of oppression and identity stripping, robbing them of agency and will.
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